One of the world's biggest engineering problems is concrete. Critical infrastructure built over the last century bridges, highways, dams, and buildings are now crumbling before our eyes. Repairing and rebuilding this decaying infrastructure.
Thousands of years worth of chemical interaction between a particular type of volcanic ash and water have made the Roman concrete stronger, not weaker, over time.
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The new Leitrim Sweathouse Project is discovering and restoring extreme grass-covered igloo-shaped stone saunas built from the early 1600s to the early 1900s and used by residents of remote Leitrim County to treat illnesses. They won’t find leprechauns in them because everyone knows you don’t sweat the small stuff. A study of the large cylindrical. Read more »